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BY THE HAWK
• A series of successful attacks on underfloor safes is reported to have taken place at 30 business locations, mainly petrol stations, in the North East, and at others in the North West and the South West.
Three makes of safe were opened by oxy-acetylene cutting, or drilling. In some cases deposit capsules were floated up after the protective anti-fishing guards had been broken.
Torch cutting was the method most often used in the attacks. In the first, pound coins were melted; in the second, the raiders filled the safe with water. In the fishing attacks several deposit capsules said to have been floated up were emptied. Subsequent tests have show that this is possible.
El Now for something completely different(?) Pannell Engineering, the Andover-based commercial vehicle body manufacturer, has become one of the first UK users of the new SAF Nertazip 520 SR plasma cutter.
Manufactured by SAF, the cutter is capable of cutting most • It's not often that I am able to bring you good news on the employment front in our industry. This week, however, I'm delighted to tell you that Foden Trucks has become the first company in Cheshire to achieve 'Approved Training Organisation' status. Local MP Mrs Ann Winterton, presented a plaque on behalf of the Manpower Services Commission to Mark Pigott last week. Winterton complimented the truck manufacturer on the quality of its training and the achievements of its trainees. She referred to the YTS scheme as an "excellent
metals up to 20mm thick, using a plasma jet, which is obtained by constricting an electric arc as it passes through a specially.. OK.
I know what you're thinking: petrol station safe raids . . . melted pound coins.. . floating deposit capsules. . There is absolutely nothing which relates that story to the perfectly reputable Pannell Engineering. Duncan Pannell, managing director, has the last word: "Traditional bridge between school and the working world".
The Hawk is suspicious of a programme which pays 225 a week but Foden has made the programme a vital and important time for its trainees (30 young people have been provided with full-time jobs since YTS was introduced at Foden in 1982) who, unlike so many throughout the country, are given genuine work experience.
17 year-old Marcus Skerratt, below, represented the trainees at the presentation. He has been taken on full-time in the Foden parts marketing department. methods of cutting aluminium are very slow, but the SAF Nertazip cuts through it like a knife through butter". Not now, Duncan, not now.